After banging my head against the wall with the Debian menu package
for a while, I'm seriously considering a rewrite or a replacement
package that accomplishes the following goals:
- Complete backward compatibility with existing menu entries.
- Built-in support for conversion to .desktop files for KDE and Gnome.
- Works reliably on all Debian platforms.
Other (undecided) goals:
- Backward compatibility with /etc/menu-methods files (install-menu):
I'm not all that enamored of the syntax. It may be better to start
from scratch here.
- Include a script to turn .desktop files into Debian menu files:
Probably only useful for developers. Would need to convert icons to
xpms using some other tool (mogrify, Gimp via script-fu, NetPBM+pngtopnm).
What I have so far is working parser for menu entries that seems to
work with all the menu entries on my systems. You can look at my
current CVS at http://130.74.162.251/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi under newmenu.
(That's also where reportbug CVS is hiding these days.)
Chris
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